Re: Lintian override or replicate files

2009-03-26 Thread Ben Finney
Ludovico Cavedon writes: > Hi all, > > There are some files like: > -man page > -.desktop file > -menu file > -menu icon > which are architecture-independent. However, if you put them inside the > "-data" package, lintian will complain (e.g. binary-without-manpage, > desktop-command-not-in-packa

Re: debhelper 7, installchangelogs, renames

2009-03-26 Thread Ben Finney
Julian Andres Klode writes: > With debhelper (>= 7.0.50) you can add this to debian/rules: > > override_dh_installchangelogs: > dh_installchangelogs RELEASE-NOTES Now that debhelper 7.2.6 is in ‘squeeze’, I'm using the above, which works fine. Thank you! -- \ “Are you thinkin

Lintian override or replicate files

2009-03-26 Thread Ludovico Cavedon
Hi all, There are some files like: -man page -.desktop file -menu file -menu icon which are architecture-independent. However, if you put them inside the "-data" package, lintian will complain (e.g. binary-without-manpage, desktop-command-not-in-package, ...) What is currently considered best pra

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:37:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'd > personally tend to say that, doing the above and assuming my > characterization is correct, it would be okay to put that in main. Another precedent (and quite similar, since it's also an application for a mobile phone, just symbian i

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Chow Loong Jin writes: > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 10:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> That would mean it should go into contrib, which is for DFSG-free >> things that can't be built or used without non-free bits. > I'm actually considering using a postinst script to tell the user that > there is a

Re: override a package dependency (without rebuilding package)

2009-03-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jérémy, On Donnerstag, 26. März 2009, Jérémy Lal wrote: > is there a way to change a package dependency without rebuilding it ? apt-cache show equivs regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

RFS: stardata-common (updated package)

2009-03-26 Thread Francisco M.
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6 of my package "stardata-common". It builds these binary packages: stardata-common - Common framework to manage astronomy packages This package allows the installation and removal of astronomy catalogues, converting those catalogu

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 10:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > That would mean it should go into contrib, which is for DFSG-free > things > that can't be built or used without non-free bits. I'm actually considering using a postinst script to tell the user that there is a .jar that they need to download

RFS: wbar (2nd try)

2009-03-26 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wbar". * Package name: wbar Version : 1.3.3+dfsg1-1 Upstream Author : Rodolfo Granata * URL : http://code.google.com/p/wbar/ * License : GPL Section : x11 It builds these binary packages: wbar

RFS: checkstyle (updated package)

2009-03-26 Thread dominik . smatana
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.4+dfsg-2 of package "checkstyle". It builds these binary packages: checkstyle - checks Java source against a coding standard The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 512149 The package can be found

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Chow Loong Jin writes: > Regarding the DFSG-compliance of this .jar, I've looked through the > DFSG, and don't see where this could be a problem. DFSG mainly prohibits > distribution of binaries without sources. This is a binary with the > source, but cannot be compiled due to a non-free build-de

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Loeffler
Hi, On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:29:06AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > The problem begins here: The Java portion has a build-dependency on Sun > Microsystem's WTK[1], and it is not free[2]. Just to make sure, what exactly is not free? a) the Java portion (and the Sun Microsystem's WTK) b) only th

RFS: clewn

2009-03-26 Thread Remy Dautriche
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "clewn". * Package name: clewn Version : 1.14-1 Upstream Author : Xavier de Gaye * URL : http://clewn.sourceforge.net * License : GPLv2 Section : devel It builds these binary packages: clewn

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <01785aaa-09b5-4cff-826b-78f31bd27...@free.fr>, Thibaut Paumard wrote: >Distributing non-DFSG-free software in main, even if it >[...] can be considered data... All software can be considered data. That's the beauty of the Turing machine abstraction and the von realization. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:15 +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Hi, > > you could provide the .jar in non-free, and the DFSG free part which > actually runs on the host could Suggest this non-free package. You > need to provide a mean to upload it to the cellphone from the Debian > box. > > The

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 26 mars 09 à 17:29, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : [...] The problem begins here: The Java portion has a build-dependency on Sun Microsystem's WTK[1], and it is not free[2]. However, this is just a build dependency, and not a runtime dependency. In fact, the .jar isn't even supposed to run on

distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Hi all, I've recently encountered an issue while packaging remuco (Bug #416379). Remuco is a duplex remote control application (mobile phones <=> media players). The mobile phone portion is written in Java, whereas the portion that runs on the media player computer is written in Python. For the P

Re: RFS: mpview

2009-03-26 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:21:29 +0100 Adam Ziaja napsal(a): > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mpview". > > Package name: mpview > Version : 0.4.1-1 > Upstream Author : Martin Petricek > URL : http://mpview.sourceforge.net > License : GPL >

RFS: png-sixlegs

2009-03-26 Thread dominik . smatana
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "png-sixlegs". * Package name: png-sixlegs Version : 1.3.0-1 Upstream Author : Chris Nokleberg * URL : http://www.sixlegs.com/software/png/ * License : LGPL-2+ Section : Java It builds these bin

RFS: mpview

2009-03-26 Thread Adam Ziaja
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mpview". Package name: mpview Version : 0.4.1-1 Upstream Author : Martin Petricek URL : http://mpview.sourceforge.net License : GPL Section : graphics It builds these binary packages: mp

Re: RFS: mecab-naist-jdic

2009-03-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
At Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:28:30 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:48:47 +0900 > Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > > It's less easy to maintain patches. > > > > How do I patch a file inside that tarball? > > > > > > Okay, it's not easy to maintain patches. Yes. > > > But upstream is

Re: Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 26 March 2009 03:40:50 Tristan Greaves wrote: >Matthew Palmer wrote: >>> One option would be to NOT include those two data files in the package, >>> but then it would not be a particularly user friendly installation. >> Producing unencumbered data files would seem to be the best option.

override a package dependency (without rebuilding package)

2009-03-26 Thread Jérémy Lal
Hi, is there a way to change a package dependency without rebuilding it ? For example, gimp2.6 depends on libwebkit-1.0.1, and i want latest libwebkit-1.0.2 installed. I don't really care to break that dependency since gimp will work without libwebkit (although some stuff will be broken, but i do

Re: Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:40:50AM +, Tristan Greaves wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: >> [clue data files with copyrighted info] >>> One option would be to NOT include those two data files in the package, but >>> then it would not be a particularly user friendly installation. >> >> Producing une

Re: Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Tristan Greaves
Matthew Palmer wrote: [clue data files with copyrighted info] One option would be to NOT include those two data files in the package, but then it would not be a particularly user friendly installation. Producing unencumbered data files would seem to be the best option. In terms of a separate

Re: Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:02:44AM +, Tristan Greaves wrote: > I'm taking a look at packaging the game Cluedome: > > http://www.cluedome.com/ > > I'm wondering if there are any copyright concerns. The game advertises itself > as a clone, and the source ships with an example game rules ru

Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Tristan Greaves
Hi, I'm taking a look at packaging the game Cluedome: http://www.cluedome.com/ I'm wondering if there are any copyright concerns. The game advertises itself as a clone, and the source ships with an example game rules rule and image -- which match that of the board came Clue/Cluedo. Fo